Editing Original video animation (section)

==Format==
Like anime made for television broadcast, OVAs are divided into episodes. OVA media (tapes, [[laserdisc]]s or DVDs) usually contain just one episode each. Episode length varies from title to title: each episode may run from a few minutes to two hours or more. An OVA series can run anywhere from a single episode to dozens of episodes in length.

Many anime series first appeared as OVAs, and later grow to become television series or movies.{{Example needed|s|date=May 2025}} Producers sometimes make other OVA releases as sequels, side stories, music-video collections, or bonus episodes that continue existing as television series or films.{{Example needed|s|date=May 2025}}

The consumer base of OVSs constitutes of mainly males. [[Bandai Visual]] said in a 2004 news release (for their new OVAs aimed at women) that about 50% of the customers who had bought their anime DVDs in the past fell into the category of 25 to 40-year-old men, with only 13% of purchasers women, even with all ages included.<ref>{{cite news
|title=&#91; 女性向けアニメションDVDを連続発売 &#93; バンダイビジュアル株式会社
|url=http://www.bandaivisual.co.jp/press/2004/press040922.html
|publisher=[[Bandai Visual]]
|date=2004-09-22
|access-date=2007-01-16
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061006045102/http://www.bandaivisual.co.jp/press/2004/press040922.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2006-10-06}}
</ref> (However, these statistics cover Bandai Visual anime DVDs in general.) [[Nikkei Business Publications]] also said in a news-release that mainly 25 to 40-year-old adults bought anime DVDs.<ref>{{cite news
|title=日経BP社｜ニュースリリース
|url=http://corporate.nikkeibp.co.jp/information/newsrelease/newsrelease20030611_2.html
|publisher=[[Nikkei Business Publications]]
|date=2003-06-11
|access-date=2007-01-15
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071120175727/http://corporate.nikkeibp.co.jp/information/newsrelease/newsrelease20030611_2.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2007-11-20}}
</ref>

Some OVAs based on television series (and especially those based on [[manga]]) may provide [[Closure (psychology)|closure]] to the plot – closure not present in the original series.{{Example needed|s|date=May 2025}}